Olivia de Havilland

[themis]

I'm a big fan of Olivia de Havilland, and enjoyed the recent London Evening Standard interview. You can read it here.

Meeting Miss de Havilland restores one's faith in film stars. So many up-and-coming starlets barely deign to give you the time of day, but this double-Oscar-winner says sweetly, 'You can ask me anything you like. Anything!' Over tea and cakes (smart little almond financiers served by her maid) she tells me her life story with aplomb – '...So I said to our future president, John F Kennedy, "I'm sorry, I can't join you for dinner, I'm studying my lines tonight"' – often breaking into high, owlish hoots of unexpectedly wicked laughter.